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B|*ZZ4rD newsWednesday, 27 August 2003
right
well, been long weekend, but sadly not been much fun though.
my dad was taken into hospital again on Sunday afternoon..
to quote my brother:
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1./ the steroids are making his feet swell, I don't mean like he's bruised
it swell, I mean they are literally like balloons, his skin seems really
stretched. they think that this is to do with the steroids damaging his
liver.
2./ the steroids are also making him put on weight, anyone that knows my dad
would know that he's generally a rather skinny man, but he's put on so much
weight that he's struggling to do alot of things, part of the side effects
of a./ the tumour and b./ the radiotherapy is that he gets tired often and
so his muscles, leg muscles in particular are pretty much wasting away
3./ his chest, when he eats he has trouble swallowing and almost chokes,
they didn't know why this was so they took him for an xray and gave him the
all clear. then on top of this he started getting terrible back pain... they
have another look at the xray and low and behold there is an infection
there. he's given anti-biotics and left it at that, not unreasonable
really... chest infection usually means anti-biotics... however since then
his back has got worse, and that's what we're seeing the doctor for today,
to find out what on earth is going on with his back
we've now been told that dad has got osteoporosis, on top of everything else
apparently being on such strong steroids has caused his bones to get weaker
and weaker, and now they're brittle and he could break something incredibly
easily, he's been given medication (which takes 2 weeks to kick in) and some
very strong pain killers to take until the other stuff starts working
---------------
the latest is:
had his liver scanned and its larger than it should be, but no sign of infection.
his head ache has gone, but back ache still present, although I think the latest steroids are helping.
he legs are swollen and have blisters on them, his leg constantly weeps very much like a blister.
he bones are still brittle, and I believe muscles aren't great simply due to lack of exercise.
he is due to be home within the next few days and im sure we must have the results of the brain scan very soon!
so yeah...another emotional weekend flew buy.
didn't really get much done that I meant to, but a few things got done here and there.
I do keep thinking about updates to this site, and perhaps I will get around to them
but at the moment it is far from the most important thing.
well, been long weekend, but sadly not been much fun though.
my dad was taken into hospital again on Sunday afternoon..
to quote my brother:
--------------------------
1./ the steroids are making his feet swell, I don't mean like he's bruised
it swell, I mean they are literally like balloons, his skin seems really
stretched. they think that this is to do with the steroids damaging his
liver.
2./ the steroids are also making him put on weight, anyone that knows my dad
would know that he's generally a rather skinny man, but he's put on so much
weight that he's struggling to do alot of things, part of the side effects
of a./ the tumour and b./ the radiotherapy is that he gets tired often and
so his muscles, leg muscles in particular are pretty much wasting away
3./ his chest, when he eats he has trouble swallowing and almost chokes,
they didn't know why this was so they took him for an xray and gave him the
all clear. then on top of this he started getting terrible back pain... they
have another look at the xray and low and behold there is an infection
there. he's given anti-biotics and left it at that, not unreasonable
really... chest infection usually means anti-biotics... however since then
his back has got worse, and that's what we're seeing the doctor for today,
to find out what on earth is going on with his back
we've now been told that dad has got osteoporosis, on top of everything else
apparently being on such strong steroids has caused his bones to get weaker
and weaker, and now they're brittle and he could break something incredibly
easily, he's been given medication (which takes 2 weeks to kick in) and some
very strong pain killers to take until the other stuff starts working
---------------
the latest is:
had his liver scanned and its larger than it should be, but no sign of infection.
his head ache has gone, but back ache still present, although I think the latest steroids are helping.
he legs are swollen and have blisters on them, his leg constantly weeps very much like a blister.
he bones are still brittle, and I believe muscles aren't great simply due to lack of exercise.
he is due to be home within the next few days and im sure we must have the results of the brain scan very soon!
so yeah...another emotional weekend flew buy.
didn't really get much done that I meant to, but a few things got done here and there.
I do keep thinking about updates to this site, and perhaps I will get around to them
but at the moment it is far from the most important thing.
